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Subject: Re: Penalty for Display of Alternate Moves = ?

Author: Pat King

Date: 16:07:10 12/03/02

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On December 03, 2002 at 15:20:06, Bob Durrett wrote:

>On December 03, 2002 at 13:09:42, Pat King wrote:
>
><snip>
>
>As a practical matter, how useful are
>>those less-than scores?
>>[snip]
>>
>>Pat
>
>In my experience, the "second best" move and sometimes third are *occasionally*
>the best moves!!!!
>
Of course, else your program is playing perfect chess, and that ain't gonna
happen. The question was, rephrased, is it worth knowing that some variation is
AT LEAST such and such worse than the PV, since the method I proposed wouldn't
give an exact score for other than the best move. Also, given the uncertainty in
the scores, is that sorted list of alternative moves likely to be in the right
order?



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